Pets Natural Disasters Poems

it was Spring 2023 that my city of Ottawa, Canada
      was hit by floods
we had so much rain that the...

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I
one sees less-marketable manners, traits
as one plays with dirt - we used to say "soil," -
wherever I go, i will be pottering plants like Philodendron

II
today...

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I
In a land of crime, pets too are killed
A goose was struck by an upset Ouma
I saw it in a fenced yard, life bleeding ...
It...

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Economic ruin does loom
as hog industry shows no bloom
since swine fever brings pig pen gloom…
Oh, ham and bacon losses boom.

With avian flu’s sudden attack
chicken-kill was...

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She sometimes thinks
Of her good fortune
She’s been lucky
She’s been blessed
Still were she alone
Come flood or fire
She’d be happy to escape 
With nothing more
Than her five...

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A sudden plunge into grey
people, pets, and homes fall prey 
hurried storm clouds gather 
howling wind thrashing through trees 
In submission lay fallen leaves

branches finally...

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THE CHENNAI FLOODS - FIRST PART

Firstly the rains came calling cool
It instantly brought hope and happiness
For people relished the Celsius dip down
And hoped for reservoirs...

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A house full of naughty furry babies wondering around
Your gross little messy surprises many times found
Chasing and fighting, then peeing all over the floor
So many...

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Some sounds like the noise of bees
Hovering around the atmosphere
Or like rain drops on our roof tops,
I opened my round window
The window of my hut,
I...

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You know the routine
Pack, grab kids, take pets, Get Out!
Hurricane Eye . . .Near...

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Monkey see....monkey do...
Monkey took a poo poo...
Monkey pooed on my arm..
on my shirt...icky warm...
Monkey poo rings my alarm!
Monkey monkey...look at you!
Get this off...it's from your...

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Why do you run away 
from the primordial fear?
Of tight emptiness?
A shapeless entity of drifting psyche?
This was your home 
where carcasses of cliches 
hang from...

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To become or not to become a renegade,
or to die or not to die for a semi-god ?
These were some of the questions
thrown at an...

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Strange it looks,
some one crying on winning a race.
He was o loser and a victor.

After such a long fight,
what is left on a banished field...

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Don’t go brutal in the veins 
blood is diluted
life has become complex. 
Barefoot truth walks,
in the sun without shadows.
We are beaten by lies.
The caste aside...

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